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Super Five Picks - Week 14

We are sticking with the Borat photos given that we finally had our first perfect week and Borat was the featured image last week! 5-0! Great success! It is nice and we like!

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Super Five Picks - Week 13

Very simple. Here are the five teams we like today. Minnesota -2.5 Miami +1.5 Green Bay +1.5 New Orleans -3 Seattle +6 Going with dogs this week. Green Bay line

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Super Five Picks - Week 12

So we already have two games in our Super Five that have already been played: Minnesota @ Detroit & LA Chagers @ Dallas. We took Detroit and the LA Chargers so we are 1-1. You

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Super Five Picks - Week 9

We will have to make this quick as the game swill start in a couple of hours. For the season, here is how we are doing. Super Five: 17-20-3 Against the Spread (all

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NFL

Super Five Picks - Week 8

Last week was profitable! 3-1-1! Let's keep it rolling! For the season, here is how we are doing. Super Five: 14-18-3 Against the Spread (all games): 53-50-3 Straight Up: 65-41 Over/Under: 50-53-3

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Super Five Picks - Week 7

Last week was brutal again. So many upsets! We have to get this ship turned around fast. We went 2-3 with the Super Five picks and 7-7 against the spread overall. Over-unders were

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Week

Super Five Picks - Week 4

OK, sorry if you took our advice last week. We have never gone 0-5. I guess we should have known better than to take all favors in a week that featured 10 home

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NFL

Super Five Picks - Week 3 NFL Predictions

Hopefully you read our column last week prior to the Week 2 games. We went 4-1 with the Super Five Picks! We were awfully close to a perfect 5-0 week! Overall, our picks

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Super Five Picks - Week 2 NFL Predictions

Ugh ... last week was awful. So much randomness. When only 2 out of the 12 Sunday games hit the over and DeShone Kizer from Cleveland is one of the better QBs, you know

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March

Predictability in a Rather Unpredictable Tournament

After a nice, month-long slumber after the Super Bowl (and taking time off for paternity leave!), it is time to wake up for one of the most exciting postseasons in all of sports:

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NFL

NFL Divisional Round Predictions (2016)

OK, I am going to be as brief as I can be here since my last two posts were quite long with my analysis of each game. We will go with bullet point

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Week

Big Five Bets - Week 17

Great week last week! 4-1! We still haven't had a 5-0 week but we hope this is the week with playoffs starting next weekend. Week 17 is always an interesting week for football

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Big Five Bets - Week 15

We will go with a short narrative for the games today. For the season, we are 34-34-2 with the Big Five Bets. Let's hope we finish strong by going 15-0 for the next

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NFL

Big Five Bets - Week 14

OK, we finally had a great week! 4-1! Could have been 5-0 if the NY Jets didn't decide to take a major dump on national TV on their own turf. My goodness was

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NFL

Big Five Bets - Week 13

Last week didn't go as well as we hoped: 1-3-1 with the push coming in the Carolina - Oakland game. The three games we missed on (MIN +2.5, MIA -7.5, BUF

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NFL

Big Five Bets - Week 12

For the season, the GE model is 86 - 75 against the spread and 28 -27 for the Big Five Bets. We have six more weeks left to the regular season so with

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NFL

Big Five Bets - Week 11

OK, we finally did better last week with our Big Five Bets: 3-2. For the season we are 25-25 with the Big Five Bets or 50% for those who are challenged by math.

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NFL

Straight Up Football Picks - Week 9

We've been doing OK this year. We are 69-50-2 when picking games straight up. Against the spread we are 63-58 which is barely profitable but we hope to improve! Here are the teams

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NFL

Survivor Pool - Week 9

We are halfway through the season and I am guessing at least 80% of you are eliminated from your Survivor Pool. If you are still alive, however, I am envious! Here are the

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Big Five Bets - Week 9

Sorry for the poor picks the last three weeks. I am not proud of going 5-10 during Weeks 6 - 8. We are now 20-20 for the season but we can go 5-0

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NFL

Straight Up Football Picks

Click here for straight up picks with confidence factor included.

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NFL

Survivor Pool

Now we publish 5 teams we like to win straight up today. They are in order of confident so first team listed is most confident and so on. Arizona Buffalo Pittsburgh New England

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Survivor

Survivor Pool

OK, I am out but I will still give advice! Here are good teams to take in your Survivor Pool this week. Minnesota Pittsburgh Philadelphia Carolina I highly doubt you have taken all

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Survivor

Survivor Football Pool Selection

Hopefully after 2 weeks of some crazy football, you are still able to pick a team this week. For Week 1, I chose Seattle and of course after a near heart attack following

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